Success breeds volume, and it's just amazing how many young writers, artists, and musicians there are in town.

When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.

That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.

It's almost is like God, in our case, gave us a shot of anesthesia, you know, to your body and to your heart in a way, that you can survive. That you're - there's enough of a numbness, you're very much alive and very aware of eternity, I mean, Heaven and the real world there. I talk a lot about how Heaven's never been more clear to me. I've never been more sure that we are made for eternity.

Cars are the reason we, you know, people live or die.

I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man except as given by God.

I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there's one who's great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can't believe.